These were the nuclear war ones:
'Protect and Survive’
[ETA: Still bloody scary.]
[ETA: Still bloody scary.]
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oh my fucking god I couldn’t even get through the first alarm sound – that sound is well and truly the angels of the apocalypse playing their horns *shivver*
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And the fall-out sound, and even the fycking jingle.
[Shudders]
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Yeah… I’m not sure I’m going to watch much more of these, you’re right, they’re absolutely awful. Yowza.
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Absolutely - no shame - real nightmare fuel.
(Even worse at the time)
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Well, just in case there are any Danes in the house who don’t know what we’re on about:
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3 minutes and 5 seconds in, Philomena Cunk has some prescient comments
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This is so true. And why getting rid of Trump is only the beginning. The rest have got to go.
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If it was the government, the class would last an hour and half, with PowerPoint slides and skits on video, and little tests that you don’t have to pass.
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I have lost my taste for books with conflict. That pretty much covers most fiction.
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I’ve had those too. The tests about why it was wrong to sleep with underage prostitutes in Thailand were especially WTF worthy.
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Why do I have an earworm now?
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Seems a little new. Give it another 6 months to stretch-in. 
OTOH, I’ve just had a great idea for a new ringtone.
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I don’t know how this works in the US but here the classification level is defined by the issuing agency and can be overruled by persons on higher level in the executive chain - if the German chancellor talks about secret military stuff this should be legally fine, as head of the goverment this may be political suicide but the person on top can reclassify the information at will.
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I seem to remember pics of Bush Jr. getting the 9/11 news while reading a book to kinder gardeners. Maybe I dreamed that.
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We did see photos of an aid whispering in his ear, but it could have been as general as “you have to come with me now, something has happened.”
Good gravy, did I just defend GWB? We live in weird times.
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Indeed, what a world. 
As I understood it, he got a tightly whispered message about what was initially assumed to be a ‘terrible accident’. Even then, that’s not really anything equivalent to what happened at the Mar A Lago public dining room.
I’ve no real respect for GWB, but even if the whispered report was ‘terrorist attack underway. Stay calm, more to follow.’, that’s still nowhere close.
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Oh. You mean kindergartners. I assumed you meant people who grow their own fruits and vegetables with more gentleness than other people do.
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Yes and the secret service guys did as @anon36081309 said. Then he cut the visit short and left the area for something secure.
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Some of that stuff was proper nightmare fuel. UK always did terrifying Public Information Films really well and they cranked it up to 11 for these. [/quote]
Watkins had some trouble getting “The War Game” screened because it depicted UK policemen shooting looters.
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